In both the Gaussian and Heaviside Lorentz systems, the electrical and magnetic units are derived from the mechanical systems.
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When electric and magnetic systems are defined as in the Gaussian or Heaviside Lorentz systems, derives from the electromagnetic wave equations.
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Note that of all these variants, only in Gaussian and Heaviside Lorentz systems \ alpha _ { \ rm L } equals c ^ {-1 } rather than 1.
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A key virtue of the Heaviside Lorentz system has these desirable properties as well ( with \ epsilon _ 0 equaling 1 ), but it is a " rationalized " system ( as is SI ) in which the charges and fields are defined in such a way that there are many fewer factors of 4 \ pi appearing in the formulas, and it is in Heaviside Lorentz units that the Maxwell equations take their simplest form.